April 25, 2008
Botball in the News: New England, Northern California, Qatar, and Florida
There has been TONS of Botball coverage in the media from coast to coast in the U.S. and across the pond in Qatar. Check out all the awesome articles below!
New England News:
The Andover Townsman has an excellent article and great pictures about the West Middle School Botball Team and the Andover High School Botball Team: Link
Wicked Local Lexington interviewed students from the Lexington High School Botball team after the New England Regional Botball Tournament: Link
Northern California News:
The San Mateo Daily News and the Palo Alto Daily News covered the Northern California Botball Tournament and interviewed students from the Los Altos Community Botball Team, Hillsdale High School Botball Team, and the Crystal Springs Uplands Botball Team: Link
Sheri Ahlheim, the team leader for the Peninsula High School Botball team wrote in to The News Tribune after they ran an article about another school’s robotic program: Link
Qatar News:
Xpress reported on the Dubai American Academy’s Botball Team: Link
The Peninsula On-line covered the Qatar Regional Botball Tournament and interviewed a representative from Carnegie Mellon University Qatar: Link
Florida News:
Lee High School’s Engineering Academy participates in the Florida Regional Botball Program. NBC 12 reports on all the good things the students are doing: Link
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April 7, 2008
Botball in the News: New England Regional Botball
New and returning Botball teams from Massachusetts competing in the New England Regional received good press over the weekend!
The Eagle-Tribune has a great article about a first year team, Haverhill High School: Link
The MetroWest Daily News reports on a long time veteran team from Ashland High School: Link
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March 7, 2008
Botball in the News: Oklahoma Regional Botball
Middle school and high school students participating in the Oklahoma Regional Botball Robotics Program have been making headlines lately.
The Dimensions Academy Botball team from Norman, Oklahoma represented Norman Public Schools Feb. 18, 2008 at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City for the State Superintendent’s Tech Day.
To find out more, read the article from the Norman Transcript: http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_059002355
Jennifer Palmer, a writer for The Oklahoman, covered the Oklahoma Regional Botball Tournament on Saturday March 1, 2008. She interviewed students from Whittier Middle School’s all-girls Botball team and first year Botballers from Moore West Junior High School.
To see what the students said about this year’s Botball program and tournament: http://newsok.com/article/3210940/1204428604
Watch a KWTV Channel 9 news segment about the Oklahoma Regional Botball Tournament: http://newsok.com/article/3210940/1204428604
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February 25, 2008
Botball in the News: Botballers hold weekend robotics camp
Is your Botball team in the market for a cool fund raising idea? Holding a robotics camp can raise money to help your team pay for Botball and it lets younger students in the community know about the practical applications of science, technology, engineering, and math!
Check out what the Edwardsville High School Botball team and the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering are doing:
According to The Telegraph, The SIUE School of Engineering and the Edwardsville High School Botball team have been working together for the past five years to hold a robotics camp “aimed at sparking interest in math and science in middle school students”.
Check out the online article, here.
Check out pictures from the camp, here.
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July 31, 2007
Botball in the News: Post-NCER
Many Botball teams from across the nation are starting to spread the word about their achievements during this summer’s National Conference on Educational Robotics! Check out the links below to read about 2 mainland teams who made the trip to Honolulu for the event:
Robert E. Lee Botball Teams (Florida Region) in the Florida Times-Union: Lee High team improves showing at Botball robotics event
Norman High Botball Team (Oklahoma Region) in the Norman Transcript: It’s not all about the bots
Waiakea High School, Kealakehe High School, Waimea Middle School, Waiakea Intermediate School, Hilo High/Hilo Intermediate School combined team, Honokaa High School, Christian Liberty Academy and Earl’s Garage (Hawaii Region) in the Hawaii Tribube-Herald: Big Isle Botballers play big
If you have NCER or Botball related news to share with the Botball community, send the story to Jenny Grigsby.
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July 12, 2007
NCER in the News!
The students, team leaders, parents, and robot enthusiasts participating in the 6th Annual National Conference on Educational Robotics have been making headlines. Check out the links below to catch up on all the NCER action!
Botball in the Honolulu Advertiser: Future Engineers Square Off at Robotics Contest
Botball on KHNL/NBC: Robotics Conference in Hawai`i
Botball in the Star Bulletin: Robot-Minded Students Show Off Their Creations
Botball on KHON/FOX: Botball Tournament at the Hawaii Convention Center
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May 2, 2007
Botball in the News: Qatar, Greater St. Louis, and Hawaii
Saturday, April 28, 2007 was a big day for Botball Tournaments!
- The first of three international tournaments was held in Doha, Qatar. The Gulf Times and the Peninsula Newspapers published great articles about the tournament and the Qatar teams.
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosted the very first Greater St. Louis Botball Regional Tournament (check out the pictures). The Bellville News Democrat interviewed Dr. Jerry Weinberg, department chair of computer science at SIUE and Greater St. Louis Regional Botball Organizer, about the event.
- The Hawaii Regional Botball Tournament was held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu - the future site of NCER 2007! Helen Altonn from the Star Bulletin watched tournament rounds all day and published TWO stories about the Hawaii Botball Regional:
- The first story focuses on the overall tournament and includes a list of the awards.
- The second story focuses primarily on the “Olomana School, which serves the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua, is the first of its kind in the nation to participate in a Botball robotics tournament”.
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April 23, 2007
Botball in the News - Northern California on ABC 7 KGO - TV
A camera crew and reporter from ABC 7 in San Francisco covered the Northern California Botball Tournament on April 21, 2007. Take the time to check out the segment that features several Bay Area Botball teams, NASA’s Mark Leon, and, of course, ROBOTS!
ABC 7 news segment: Bay Area Students Recognized For Their Robots